Question asked by Luke
Hi pastors I hope you are all keeping well in Malaysia I think of you all daily and send my prayers to you all.
When I found Rinpoche back in 2019 he told me to begin Dorje Shugdens practise and shize for some health issues I was having. I will always have these health issues as it turns out. My question is, I've been doing the Guru Yoga from diamond path book condensed version but I just wanted to know Can I do this Shize practise as a Daily Sadhana ? https://www.tsemrinpoche.com/tsem-tulku-rinpoche/downloads/shize-a-practice-for-healing-and-long-life.html
it also contains the Guru Yoga and Dorje shugdens practise along with shize so I think it's all essentially the same? except for shize practise being inserted?? It would be easier for me to just print all this out as is and read from it. If you could please shed some light that would be good as I want to obey Rinpoches advise to me as much as possible.
Dear Luke,
You are right that the Diamond Path prayers and the Shize text are in fact very similar. The only difference is actually the mantra. So, you don’t need to do the Shize text as a daily sadhana in addition to the Diamond path. Since you are focusing on Shize, you can just use the Diamond Path prayers as usual, but when it comes the mantra section, instead of reciting the usual mantra of Dorje Shugden and the entourage mantra, you recite that of Shize and entourage instead. The rest of the prayers remains the same.
What you can do differently is the associated visualisations. So instead of visualising Dorje Shugden’s main form during the prayers, you visualise Shize instead. You can follow the visualisations as laid out in the Shize article: https://www.tsemrinpoche.com/tsem-tulku-rinpoche/downloads/shize-a-practice-for-healing-and-long-life.html
Dorje Shugden and Shize as the same, so you don’t need to engage in the both of their practices daily, you just need to do one of them. It’s just that when you do Shize’s practice you gain the benefits associated with his practice first before the rest of his benefits (which is the same as Dorje Shugden’s general benefits). I hope this makes sense. Thank you.